WSJ’s Patrick O’Connor says any boost Obama’s Syria plans received from GOP leaders’ backing quickly faded due to deep doubts among rank-and-file lawmakers. Obama still has convincing to do.

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the ... the two Koreas internal star with Republicans this up ... he um the administration at least I thought this to be cut off to a pretty good start on the Republican side when within literally within five minutes on each other John painter the speaker Eric Cantor Republican majority leader in the house boasts a war with the president on this one ... and how much on any other day ... um the the the second and take them somewhere ... it'll take him somewhere I don't know how far will take them ... in the days after Obama for so that you can see congressional approval it you're hearing from a lot of aid St someone's got on this that we have heard from the speaker we haven't heard from majority leader ... in Air Canada's made Syria a very big issue for him for the last couple of years has been prodding Obama to act ... and there is uncertainty so when they came out in favor of that it was a necessary thing for the president of any stock of House passes ... but then if you're a watch that day or two later I this is the next day when House Foreign Affairs Committee finally did the hearing was set to take a care in the sector it a goal ... he didn't hear a lot of people ... supporting the measure of the compound apartments on the Republican side of town on the markets are served in both Iraq and Afghanistan ... is fairly vocal as the sentencing are is also the entrance for that flew ... missions in Afghanistan and Iraq ... wound that he was a lot of skepticism so ... you know this is not in the Republican leadership that has had a lot of sway with its members ... and I think this is going to be a major test might be my question is is how much elbow grease so they can put in writing candor and talking and we ate we chatted earlier this week and he made the point ... that he really thinks the president must sell this thing not just a Congress that the American people eat all the vomit twice during the meeting that the White House this week that ... he needed to ... deliver an address from the Oval office to the American people describing why ... the US is take this step and I think ... the jury's still out even from some of these Republicans who supported about the sidebar lists of those are telling boats and some unknown people are really to climb up are all about ... the yes column on the outside of seventeen ... five of those the Republicans in the ... Bay Area camps isn't ... Sullivan draw lot of people are either side and it delivers so much not mom declare ... my one and it's interesting about this call for the administration to to sell the American people and to sell members of Congress ... the very first round of three things that the Helen Scott ... is all focused on the question of whether or not chemical weapons were used and if they were when they buy side ... well they seem to have ... developed a case to convince people but that doesn't take you ... anywhere in terms of selling this as the response and that's what they need to that's an interesting point I think the probably be going into this week that the few beaches make the case the ... court was reused in the regime didn't and there's no doubt about that that would be enough thankless there you go in the sun has not happened with that with this McConnell of Kentucky months ago ... this first question that came up with a townhome really really even said there are no easy answers it's really hard to sit in ... we can't necessarily be with the opposition is there a lot of unseemly characters there and we can't necessarily ... standby lettuce I did when his dealings but there is this model and it's been very Nolan has given a clear answer ... you are that ... you are where you are and I don't know that the administration is presented ... as with the most compelling evidence that Kerry Kerry during a hearing with soda for relations at least ... basically try to turn it back on Chris Murphy when the Democrat to his question saying ... how would you feel it ... yet ... if they guess their citizens again I mean